Instance of the Fingerpost, Pears Iain

Автор: Pears Iain
Название: Stone`s Fall
ISBN: 0099516179 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099516170
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: In his most dazzling and brilliant novel since `An Instance of the Fingerpost`, Iain Pears tells the story of John Stone, financier and armaments manufacturer, a man so wealthy that in the years before World War One he was able to manipulate markets, industries and indeed whole countries and continents. A panoramic novel with a riveting mystery at its heart, `Stone Fall` is a quest to discover how and why John Stone dies, falling out of a window at his London home.

Автор: Pears Iain
Название: Immaculate Deception #ост./не издается#
ISBN: 0006511112 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006511113
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Цена: 2000 T
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Описание: When a major painting is kidnapped days before an important international exhibition opens in Rome, Flavia di Stefano, newly appointed head of the Italian Art Squad, has a feeling her life is suddenly going to get very complicated.

Автор: Pears Iain
Название: Portrait 5CD
ISBN: 0007206682 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007206681
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Цена: 4360 T
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Описание: A dark and disturbing novel of suspense brought to vivid life in this CD audiobook. This is a tale set at the turn of the 20th century, by the bestselling author of An Instance of the Fingerpost. The windswept isle of Houat, off the coast of Brittany, is no picturesque artists' colony.

At the turn of the twentieth century, life is harsh and rustic. So why did Henry MacAlpine forsake London -- where he had been feted by critics and gallery owners, his works exhibited alongside the likes of Cezanne and Van Gogh -- to make his home in this remote outpost? The truth begins to emerge when, four years into his exile, MacAlpine receives his first visitor. Influential art critic William Nasmyth has come to the island to sit for a portrait.

Over the course of the sitting, the power balance between the two men shifts dramatically as the critic whose pen could anoint or destroy careers becomes a passive subject. And as the painter struggles to capture Nasmyth's true character on canvas, a story unfolds -- one of betrayal, hypocrisy, forbidden love, suicide and ultimately murder.

Автор: Pears Iain
Название: Arcadia
ISBN: 057130155X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571301553
Издательство: Faber
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Описание: In the basement of a professor`s house in 1960s Oxford, fifteen-year-old Rosie goes in search of a missing cat - and instead finds herself in a different world. Anterwold is a sun-drenched land of storytellers, prophecies and ritual. But is this world real - and what happens if she decides to stay?

Автор: Pears Iain
Название: Giotto`s Hand
ISBN: 0007229240 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007229246
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Цена: 7260 T
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Описание: Witty and clever art history-mystery featuring Jonathan Argyll, from the author of the bestselling masterpiece `An Instance of the Fingerpost`.

Автор: Pears Iain
Название: Bernini Bust, The
ISBN: 0007229194 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007229192
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Цена: 6600 T
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Описание: Clever Italian art-history crime series featuring scholar and dealer Jonathon Argyll, from the author of the best-selling masterpiece `An Instance of the Fingerpost`.

Автор: Pears Iain
Название: Raphael Affair, The
ISBN: 0007229178 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007229178
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: First in the Italian art-history crime series featuring English dealer and sleuth Jonathan Argyll, from the author of the best-selling masterpiece `An Instance of the Fingerpost`.

Автор: Pears Iain
Название: Bernini Bust, The
ISBN: 0006511147 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006511144
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
Цена: 4620 T
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Описание: Witty art-history mystery from the author of the best-selling literary masterpiece, An Instance of the Fingerpost. British art historian Jonathan Argyll has just sold a minor Titian to an American museum for a highly inflated price. But as he complacently awaits his cheque in the Californian sunshine, trouble erupts: the museum's billionaire owner is murdered, a dubious art dealer disappears, and a Bernini bust, apparently smuggled out of Italy, is missing. Things could hardly be worse, and the situation calls for assistance from his friends General Bottando and Flavia di Stefano of the Italian National Art Theft Squad...especially as things do get worse -- the killer's attention turns to Jonathan himself. Cleverly mixing murder with art, The Bernini Bust is a witty and intriguing mystery from the bestselling author of An Instance of the Fingerpost.

Автор: Pears Iain
Название: Titian Committee, The
ISBN: 0006511139 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006511137
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: By the author of the acclaimed bestseller, An Instance of the Fingerpost. When Louise Masterson, a member of the famous Titian Committee, is found stabbed to death in a Venetian public garden, General Bottando of Rome's Art Theft Squad sends Flavia di Stefano to Venice to assist the local carabinieri. But it seems they don't want her help or expertise, and are convinced a Sicilian mugger is responsible for the killing. Flavia has other ideas and calls upon the services of English art historian Jonathan Argyll, who is in Venice to buy a picture from the Marchesa di Mulino's collection. When another member of the committee is found dead and the Marchesa's collection is stolen, Flavia and Argyll follow a tortuous trail to unearth the truth behind both the killings and the theft. In the process, not only do they stumble across another murder, but come close to unravelling a mystery from Titian's own life.

Автор: Pears Iain
Название: Giotto`s Hand
ISBN: 0006490263 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006490265
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
Цена: 4620 T
Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Fascinating art-crime novel set in Italy from the bestselling author of An Instance of the Fingerpost. General Bottando of Rome's Art Theft Squad is in trouble: his theory that a single master criminal, dubbed 'Giotto', is behind a string of major art thefts has aroused the scorn of his arch enemy and rival, the bureaucrat Corrado Argan. He needs a result, and the confession of a dying woman may just provide the vital clue. In pursuit of the elusive Giotto, Bottando's colleague, Flavia di Stefano, sets off hotfoot for Florence, and English art dealer Jonathan Argyll is dispatched to London and then on to rural Norfolk...only to discover a body and a mystery which could lead to the greatest art find of his career...

Автор: Pears Iain
Название: Raphael Affair, The
ISBN: 0006511120 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006511120
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: The novel which began Iain Pears's acclaimed art crime series, introducing General Bottando and Flavia di Stefano of the Italian National Art Theft Squad. When English art historian, Jonathan Argyll, is caught breaking into a church in Rome, he has an astonishing story to tell. He claims that the church contains a genuine Raphael, hidden under a painting by Mantini. Further investigation reveals that the painting has disappeared...to reappear later in the hands of top English art dealer, Edward Byrnes. Soon Byrnes is able to unveil the Raphael before an amazed world. But how had he found out about the hidden masterpiece? And there is also the curious matter of the forger whose safety deposit box contains some highly suspicious sketches. Then a hideous act of vandalism is perpetrated. Murder is to follow...and General Bottando of Italy's Art Theft Squad faces the most critical challenge of his whole career.

Автор: Pears Iain
Название: Death and Restoration
ISBN: 0006498752 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006498759
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: 'This book dances with sunlight and colour, faded patinas and shifting standards, with humour and knowledge making easy companions' Mail on Sunday The monastery of San Giovanni has few treasures -- only a painting doubtfully attributed to Caravaggio. So Flavia di Stefano of Rome's Art Squad is surprised to receive a tip-off that a raid is being planned. The raid happens, but the thieves are disturbed and snatch the wrong painting, a curious icon of the Madonna, remarkable only for the affection in which it is held by the local population. Or is this what the thieves wanted all along? Does the legend of the icon's miraculous powers hold any clue? And who murdered the French dealer found in the Tiber soon afterwards? Flavia, with the help of English art dealer Jonathan Argyll, immerses herself in the intricacies and intrigues of monastic and police politics in an attempt to solve the double mystery, but the solution that awaits her is murkier and more complex than anyone could have known.

Автор: Pears Iain
Название: Titan Committee
ISBN: 0425168956 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780425168950
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 3950 T
Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.

Автор: Pears Iain
Название: Raphael Affair
ISBN: 0425166139 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780425166130
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 3950 T
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Автор: Pears Iain
Название: Instance of the Fingerpost, An
ISBN: 1573227951 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781573227957
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 11290 T
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Описание: A national bestseller and one of the New York Public Library's Books to Remember, An Instance of the Fingerpost is a thrilling historical mystery from Iain Pears.

"It is 1663, and England is wracked with intrigue and civil strife. When an Oxford don is murdered, it seems at first that the incident can have nothing to do with great matters of church and state....Yet, little is as it seems in this gripping novel, which dramatizes the ways in which witnesses can see the same events yet remember them falsely. Each of four narrators--a Venetian medical student, a young man intent on proving his late father innocent of treason, a cryptographer, and an archivist--fingers a different culprit...an erudite and entertaining tour de force." --People

Iain Pears's The Dream of Scipio and The Portrait are also available from Riverhead Books.